In 2002, Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry reported that their survey of the colour of all light in the universe added up to a slightly beigeish white.

Their survey included more than 200,000 galaxies.

The hexadecimal value for this colour, Cosmic Latte, is #FFF8E7.

The study also revealed is that the majority of stars formed around 5 billion years ago.

The colour of the universe is also changing over time - shifting from blue to red.

The colour shift is because blue stars change to yellow & then to red giants, & eventually into black holes.

Glazebrook in a Washington Post article where the color was displayed jokingly said that he was looking for suggestions for naming this new colour.

Peter Drum came up with the name while sitting at a Starbucks coffee house, drinking a latte and reading the Washington Post article, where he noted that the displayed colour in the article resembled the colour of his latte.